EnerQuality Corporation - Record amount of activity able homes complete in Ontario during 2006

EnerQuality Awards of Excellence presented to activity ability leaders

(Markham, Ontario, January 12, 2007) With their anniversary Awards of Excellence, the EnerQuality Corporation accustomed Ontario's outstanding architecture professionals, industry ally and homebuilders today for advancing activity ability in new home construction. There were 9 accolade categories alignment from ENERGY STAR® for New Homes Builder of the Year to Best Marketing Program (chart attached). The awards celebration was captivated in affiliation with the Ontario Building & Renovation Forum in Markham.

"The EnerQuality Awards of Excellence winners, through their dedication, accomplishment and leadership, accept adapted the new apartment market. They accept accomplished consumers, motivated change in the industry and bigger architecture techniques," said Michael Lio, President of EnerQuality Corporation. "This has resulted in an exponential advance in the amount of activity able homes in Ontario."

EnerQuality manages three accepted activity ability initiatives in Ontario targeting new housing: ENERGY STAR for New Homes, R-2000 and EnerGuide for New Houses. The three initiatives accept a absolute of 354 accommodating homebuilders, including the better builders in the country, and accept the abutment of government and clandestine area partners, including Natural Resources Canada, Ontario's Conservation Bureau, Enbridge Gas Distribution, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, DuPont Tyvek, Icynene, Owens Corning, and OZZ Corporation.

ENERGY STAR is internationally accustomed as the accomplished activity ability accepted on the market, authoritative it best-in-class. The ENERGY STAR characterization is becoming alone by homes that accept met austere requirements, acceptance homebuyers to await on the achievement tested, third affair verified, government backed ENERGY STAR characterization to apperceive they are affairs the a lot of able abode on the market. New homes that accept this characterization are about 30 percent added activity able than those complete to the minimum Ontario Building Code standards.

R-2000 certified homes action both activity ability and blooming architecture features. Only accountant R-2000 builders who accept been accomplished and certified can body R-2000 homes.

EnerGuide for New Houses is a appraisement arrangement that informs consumers and supports best by barometer the activity use and ability of a new house. In this initiative, blueprints are analyzed to appraise a house's activity ability and accomplish a appraisement out of 100. For every point acceleration on the scale, added money is adored on account bills.

In 2006, there were 1,616 new, activity able homes completed and labeled; 802 homes ENERGY STAR qualified, 78 homes R-2000 certified, and 736 homes EnerGuide rated. Compared to 2005, there was a 255% advance in new, activity able homes, due to the massive amount of ENERGY STAR homes completed in 2006.

Energy able homes are bound acceptable the barometer in Ontario. In 2006 alone, builders either started or committed to architecture 5,011 homes a allotment of the three initiatives

"The changes to the Ontario architecture cipher in 2006 will crave all new homes started in December 2011 to be complete to EnerGuide 80. Builders already amalgam homes at this akin accept accustomed a head-start and will calmly adapt," said Corey McBurney, Managing Director of EnerQuality. "None of the advance that has been fabricated would accept been accessible after the harder plan of so many. We are actual blessed to present these Awards of Excellence to the companies and humans who are arch Ontario into an environmentally acceptable future."

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For alone media releases, accomplishments on the alone accolade winners, top above photos of projects and recipients, and advice about ENERGY STAR for New Homes, R-2000 and EnerGuide for New Houses, acquaintance Brent Kulba at 416-972-7401 or kulbab(at)huffstrategy.com.

The ENERGY STAR mark is administered and answer in Canada by Natural Resources Canada and acclimated with permission. R-2000 and EnerGuide are official marks of Natural Resources Canada and acclimated with permission.

EnerQuality Awards of Excellence Winners
January 12, 2007

Best Marketing Program

Sponsored by Owens Corning

Recognizes a architect that has delivered an outstanding business affairs which integrates ENERGY STAR for New Homes, EnerGuide for New Houses or R-2000.

Presented by Andy Goyda, Owens Corning

Mattamy Homes North Halton Division

Mattamy North Halton maintained a connected bartering affairs focused on ENERGY STAR® for New Homes and fabricated an outstanding addition to activity ability through their Green Initiative affairs and two affirmation homes.

Mattamy North Halton is Canada's better ENERGY STAR builder, accepting awash 1,300 ENERGY STAR able homes in beneath than a year in its Coates Crossing II and Coates Common neighbourhoods at Hawthorne Village, and Hawthorne Village on the Escarpment association in Milton.

Technical Excellence

Sponsored by DuPont Tyvek

Recognizes abstruse arete in architecture practices which advance activity ability in new homes.

Presented by Dana Miller, Chris Taylor and Bruce Kelly, DuPont Tyvek

Reid's Heritage Homes

Reid's Heritage Homes best congenital avant-garde architecture practices and articles which bigger their all-embracing home achievement and efficiency. They formed carefully with Natural Resources Canada and certified Energy Evaluators to analyze and antidote any botheration areas; formed with suppliers and manufacturers to affordably access home ability by standardizing top ability architecture techniques and articles such as calefaction accretion ventilators and low-e argon windows in baddest homes, as able-bodied as apparatus a array of technologies including solar and geothermal heating, cooling and baptize heating systems. In addition, Reid's Heritage Homes set up alive partnerships with municipalities and educational institutions to advance avant-garde strategies, such as rainwater agriculture systems for homes and communities.

Reid's Heritage Homes has communities in London, Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph, Collingwood, Kincardine, Port Elgin, Owen Sound, Stokes Bay and Huntsville.

Evaluator of the Year

Sponsored by DOW Chemical

Recognizes a certified Energy Evaluator who provides outstanding account to homebuilders in the ENERGY STAR for New Homes, EnerGuide for New Houses, and R-2000 initiatives.

Presented by Martha Swinn, DOW Chemical

Ross Elliott, Homestead Building Solutions

Ross Elliott evaluated and labeled about 300 homes in the Ottawa arena in 2006. With 20 years acquaintance as an activity auditor, he is awful admired by his aeon and customers. He has accurate and complete continued continuing relationships with homebuilders such as Urbandale Homes, Valecraft Homes and Metric Homes, mentored abounding new evaluators, played a axial role in transforming the activity able apartment market, and is currently chairing EnerQuality's Evaluator Council.

Industry Partner of the Year

Sponsored by the EnerQuality Builder Council

Recognizes a architect or supplier which has gone aloft and above to abutment activity ability in new home construction.

Presented by Bernie Torchia, Eden Oak Homes, EnerQuality Builder Council

Enbridge Gas Distribution

Enbridge Gas Distribution has been an aboriginal and breath adherent of ENERGY STAR for New Homes and EnerGuide for New Houses. Enbridge provides all-encompassing business abutment to builders and has a aggregation of eight New Housing Market Consultants in the acreage announcement new home activity efficiency.

Enbridge has aswell accomplished builder/trades training, is complex in chump research, and continues to accolade builders with a banking allurement for architecture activity able homes.

Leader of the Year

Sponsored by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Recognizes administration in announcement activity ability in new home architecture by accretion acquaintance and affective change.

Presented by Peter Friedman, CMHC

Andrew Bowerbank, Canada Green Building Council, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Andrew Bowerbank was active in facilitating Ontario's better ENERGY STAR community, the City of Vaughan's Block 39 Sustainable Community Initiative. This association will comprise 1,600 ENERGY STAR able homes, in accession to activity able schools, association centres and retail spaces.

Mr. Bowerbank is aswell managing the development of The Living City Campus in Vaughan area 300 hectares of acreage at the Kortright Centre for Conservation will be adapted into a Campus for acceptable development. It will accommodate the better absorption of blooming barrio in North America and Canada's better renewable activity training centre, showcasing to industry leaders the latest concepts and technologies for developing advantageous communities.

Leader of the Year

Sponsored by Enbridge Gas Distribution

Recognizes administration in announcement activity ability in new home architecture by accretion acquaintance and affective change.

Presented by Kathleen Hunt, Enbridge

Sean Mason, Mason Homes

Sean Mason has committed himself and Mason Homes to architecture and announcement activity ability in new home architecture and, in the process, has afflicted his homebuilder aeon and consumers alike. He frequently makes presentations to municipalities, associations and absorbed groups on activity able architecture and is currently architecture one of Canada's aboriginal LEED H Case Study projects in North Toronto.

Mason Homes was the aboriginal ENERGY STAR for New Homes architect in Canada, and in October 2005, they were the aboriginal to accomplish ENERGY STAR accomplishment a accepted in all of their homes. Mason Homes has communities in Barrie, Uxbridge, Lindsay and Peterborough.

ENERGY STAR for New Homes Builder of the Year

Sponsored by the Conservation Bureau

Recognizes a architect that exemplifies charge to activity ability in new home architecture and labels the a lot of ENERGY STAR able new homes.

Presented by Peter Love, Chief Energy Conservation Officer, Conservation Bureau, OPA

The Daniels Corporation

The Daniels Corporation had 175 homes able as ENERGY STAR in 2006 with addition 275 homes appointed for ENERGY STAR accomplishment in 2007.

During the summer, the aggregation accomplished architecture on its Daniels FirstHome™ Erin Mills association in Mississauga, which is comprised of ENERGY STAR-qualified, ample abode townhomes geared against first-time homebuyers. This was the better ENERGY STAR association in Canada complete with first-time buyers in mind. In the fall, architecture was completed at the next FirstHome™ association in Markham.

Daniels is one of Canada's a lot of arresting residential builder/developers, alms communities throughout the GTA, Markham and Oakville.

EnerGuide for New Houses Builder of the Year

Sponsored by OZZ Corporation

Recognizes a architect that exemplifies charge to activity ability in new home architecture and labels the a lot of EnerGuide for New Houses able homes.

Presented by Glen Leis, OZZ Corporation

Empire Communities

Empire Communities labeled 141 homes with an EnerGuide for New Houses rating, added than any added Canadian architect in 2006. They accommodate EnerGuide labeled homes company-wide and accept communities in Brantford, Binbrook and Cambridge, anniversary with the advantage of advance to ENERGY STAR qualification.

Their new association in Uxbridge, the Estates of Wyndance, has 125 homes that will appear with ENERGY STAR accomplishment as a accepted feature

R-2000 Builder of The Year

Sponsored by Icynene

Recognizes a architect that exemplifies charge to activity ability in new home architecture and labels the most
R-2000 certified homes.

Presented by Terry Coggins, Icynene

Starward Homes (Meadowland) Limited

Starward Homes fabricated a cogent addition to activity ability by certifying 13 homes as R-2000 in 2006, added than any added architect in the aforementioned year.

Their Landscapes of Ancaster project, which comprises 37 executive-style, bungalow abode boondocks homes, is one of the few abode boondocks home projects to add the account of R-2000 to its account of specifications.

Starward Homes aswell has communities in Hamilton.

Hall of Fame

Sponsored by Natural Resources Canada

Recognizes an alone who has fabricated a significant, abiding addition to activity ability in new home construction

Presented by Sylvain Quilliam, Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada

Doug Marshall (Award acclimatized by wife Kim and babe Kristen Marshall)

Doug Marshall of Belleville fabricated an outstanding lifetime addition to advancing activity ability in Canada's new apartment industry. He anesthetized abroad in April 2006, abrogation a bequest of bazaar transformation.

Doug's 20-year charge to activity ability in homebuilding had a cogent appulse on the development and accumulation of the R-2000, ENERGY STAR for New Homes and EnerGuide for New Houses initiatives. In 2006, he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Natural Resources Canada acquainted his contribution.

From the aboriginal 1980s, Doug was breath in the R-2000 initiative. His company, Marshall Consulting, complete several R-2000 houses and provided able casework to abundant added R-2000 builders. More recently, he was one of the a lot of breath Energy Evaluators, alive with forward-thinking home builders above Ontario, from Toronto to Ottawa, advising them and testing their houses to accommodated the acrimonious ENERGY STAR for New Homes standard. He has advocated for and accomplished abounding humans in the science and accomplishment of activity ability home building.

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ENERGY STAR® for New Homes is a characterization becoming alone by homes that accept met austere requirements, acceptance homebuyers to await on the achievement tested, third affair verified, government backed ENERGY STAR characterization to apperceive they are affairs the a lot of able abode on the market. New homes that accept this characterization are about 30 percent added activity able than those complete to the minimum Ontario Building Code standards. The ENERGY STAR mark is administered and answer in Canada by Natural Resources Canada and is acclimated with permission.

R-2000 certified homes action both activity ability and blooming architecture features. Only accountant R-2000 builders who accept been accomplished and certified can body R-2000 homes. R-2000 is an official mark of Natural Resources Canada and is acclimated with permission.

EnerGuide for New Houses is a appraisement arrangement that informs consumers and supports best by barometer the activity use and ability of a new house. EnerGuide is an official mark of Natural Resources Canada and is acclimated with permission.

For alone media releases, accomplishments on the alone accolade winners, top above photos of projects and recipients, and advice about ENERGY STAR for New Homes, R-2000 and EnerGuide for New Houses, acquaintance Brent Kulba at 416-972-7401 or kulbab(at)huffstrategy.com.